From: Juerd Date: 14:40 on 24 Apr 2005 Subject: Bad Terminal! After mis-doubleclicking: 15:41 < Juerd> WHY THE HELL DOES DRAGGING COPY AND PASTE 15:41 < Juerd> THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WITHIN THE SAME TERMINAL WINDOW Juerd
From: David Champion Date: 22:06 on 24 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: Bad Terminal! * On 2005.04.24, in <20050424134055.GQ26732@xx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx>, * "Juerd" <juerd@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx> wrote: > After mis-doubleclicking: > > 15:41 < Juerd> WHY THE HELL DOES DRAGGING COPY AND PASTE > 15:41 < Juerd> THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WITHIN THE SAME TERMINAL > WINDOW Sure it does. I use this all the time, and I actually consider it one of the few things Terminal has gotten right. What *should* dragging within the same Terminal window do?
From: Juerd Date: 22:51 on 24 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: Bad Terminal! David Champion skribis 2005-04-24 16:06 (-0500): > What *should* dragging within the same Terminal window do? Nothing at all. I understand that some people want this feature. I absolutely do not want it. At least KDE's terminal lets you disable it. My mouse control skills are not so good and using a mouse hurts. So I use a Wacom pen. But even with that, it's sometimes hard for me to click something without dragging it. Nowhere does dragging something a few pixels have such great impact as in a terminal. Combine this with Terminal.app's inability to naturally snap to the boundaries of what is clearly a URL, and you get disaster almost every time you're trying to copy a URL from IRC, to view it in a browser. Dragging it to *another* terminal would be nice, and I use that feature sometimes. But this behaviour sucks and I don't know how to avoid it. Juerd
From: David Champion Date: 23:13 on 24 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: Bad Terminal! * On 2005.04.24, in <20050424215148.GS26732@xx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx>, * "Juerd" <juerd@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx> wrote: > > Dragging it to *another* terminal would be nice, and I use that feature > sometimes. But this behaviour sucks and I don't know how to avoid it. Okay, I'll agree that configurability is good. But it does make sense to support drag within the window. I use this do duplicate text without pounding my cut buffer -- like when I want to paste one thing after pasting something else. Mmmm, MacOS cut buffers. Or anyone's cut buffers, really. Much hate. It nice that they understand multiple data types and all, but really, just one frame? Who's really *happy* with just one frame, or with flipping around in your silly Scrapbook for the other thing you wanted to paste really within the same breath, if possible? I have a vague sense that we've covered that ground before, though.
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